Yesterday I found a Hakim in 8x57mm and put it on layaway. It has a beautiful bore on it and looks like it was carried a lot in the field but not shot a lot. I suspect that it can be very accurate. I have a good assortment of 195+ grain .323 bullets.

I do not reload , but have recently purchased one also . They look to be a nice rifle and I look forward to shooting mine. I have not even started looking for ammo though. Good luck with your rifle and keep us posted.

One word of warning. Do not use Turkish 8 mm suprlus ammo in the Hakim or any other semiautomatic rifle. The rounds contain a slow burning powder that will put too much pressure on the gas system and damage or wreck it.

If you are going to reload you will need a shell buffer to keep the action from dinging the brass. They can be made from rubber tubing etc..

The Hakim has a gas adjustment valve on the upper side of the barrel. That is what the small pie-shaped thing poking through the handguard is. You can use it to regulate the amount of gas entering the gas system.

NO EXPERT I have enjoyed mine and found them to be accurate and reliable I found the ejected brass to be excessively
mutilated but ammo was so cheap , who cared ??? HOPEFULLY you gun will be better behaved than mine were

NO EXPERT I have enjoyed mine and found them to be accurate and reliable I found the ejected brass to be excessively
mutilated but ammo was so cheap , who cared ??? HOPEFULLY you gun will be better behaved than mine were

The first target was 10 shots of 1953 Yugoslavian. 6 O'clock hold at 50 yards
The second target was 5 shots with 42 Grains of IMR 4895 and 196 FMJ bullets. Center hold at 50 yards. It shot high.

The Yugoslavian Ammo had very hard primers. I also found that the firing pin was not clean and occasionally stuck in the forward position. I cleaned it out at home with Balistol , pipe cleaners and cotton swabs. The firing pin channel was clogged with gunk and some rust. I can't wait to shoot it again.